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Hanoi Jane
War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal Jerry Lembcke A provocative analysis of how and why Jane Fonda the person became Hanoi Jane the myth
From Aristophanes’ Lysistrata to the notorious Mata Hari and the legendary Tokyo Rose, stories of female betrayal during wartime have recurred throughout human history. The myth of Hanoi Jane, Jerry Lembcke argues, is simply the latest variation on this enduring theme. Like most of the iconic femmes fatales who came before, it is based on a real person, Jane Fonda. And also like its predecessors, it combines traces of fact with heavy doses of fiction to create a potent symbol of feminine perfidy—part erotic warrior-woman Barbarella, part savvy antiwar activist, and part powerful entrepreneur. Hanoi Jane, the book, deconstructs Hanoi Jane, the myth, to locate its origins in the need of Americans to explain defeat in Vietnam through fantasies of home-front betrayal and the emasculation of the national will-to-war. Lembcke shows that the expression “Hanoi Jane” did not reach the eyes and ears of most Americans until five or six years after the end of the war in Vietnam. By then, anxieties about America’s declining global status and deteriorating economy were fueling a populist reaction that pointed to the loss of the war as the taproot of those problems. Blaming the antiwar movement for undermining the military’s resolve, many found in the imaginary Hanoi Jane the personification of their stab-in-theback theories. Ground zero of the myth was the city of Hanoi itself, which Jane Fonda had visited as a peace activist in July 1972. Rumors surrounding Fonda’s visits with U.S. POWs and radio broadcasts to troops

combined to conjure allegations of treason that had cost American lives. That such tales were more imagined than real did not prevent them from insinuating themselves into public memory, where they have continued to infect American politics and culture. Hanoi Jane is a book about the making of Hanoi Jane by those who saw a formidable threat in the Jane Fonda who supported soldiers and veterans opposed to the war they fought, in the postcolonial struggle of the Vietnamese people to make their own future, and in the movements of women everywhere for gender equality. “This is not a narrowly focused effort to compare the ‘real’ Jane Fonda to the image of ‘Hanoi Jane.’ Rather, Lembcke shows how Fonda’s demonization played an important part in a powerful rightwing campaign to attribute American defeat in Vietnam to left-wing scapegoats and to reconstitute U.S. power as well as the ideal of aggressive masculinity.” —Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides

“Pulsing with brilliant insights and invaluable scholarship, Hanoi Jane is much more than a biography of a single myth. It is an exploration of some of the tangled cultural, psychological, and historical strands that constitute American memory of the Vietnam War, memory with profound influence on American culture and behavior in the last quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.” —H. Bruce Franklin, author of Vietnam and Other American Fantasies jerry lembcke is professor of sociology at The College of the Holy Cross and author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam.

Mashed Up
Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture Aram Sinnreich How emerging technologies are reshaping the dynamic between musical regulation and resistance
From ancient times to the present day, writers and thinkers have remarked on the unique power of music to evoke emotions, signal identity, and bond or divide entire societies, all without the benefit of literal representation. Even if we can’t say precisely what our favorite melody means, we know very well what kind of effect it has on us, and on our friends and neighbors. According to Aram Sinnreich, this power helps to explain why music has so often been regulated in societies around the globe and throughout history. Institutional authorities ranging from dynastic China’s “Office to Harmonize Sounds” to today’s copyright collecting societies like BMI and ASCAP leverage the rule of law and the power of the market to make sure that some musical forms and practices are allowed and others are prohibited. Yet, despite the efforts of these powerful regulators, musical cultures consistently devise new and innovative ways to work around institutional regulations. These workarounds often generate new styles and traditions in turn, with effects far beyond the cultural sphere. Mashed Up chronicles the rise of “configurability,” an emerging musical and cultural moment rooted in today’s global, networked communications infrastructure. Based on interviews with dozens of prominent DJs, attorneys, and music industry executives, the book argues that today’s battles over sampling, file sharing, and the marketability of new styles such as “mash-ups” and “techno” presage social change on a far broader scale.

Specifically, the book suggests the emergence of a new ethic of configurable collectivism; an economic reunion of labor; a renegotiation of the line between public and private; a shift from linear to recursive logic; and a new “DJ consciousness,” in which the margins are becoming the new mainstream. Whether these changes are sudden or gradual, violent or peaceful, will depend on whether we heed the lessons of configurability, or continue to police and punish the growing ranks of the mashed up. “The greatest strength of this book is the broad, interdisciplinary range of its appeal: audiences interested in musicology, digital rights, street culture, and many other subjects will find it interesting, and it is written in a style that members of the general public would also appreciate. It is a book that could be assigned to undergraduates who are

music majors and for courses in which intellectual property is a theme.” —Elizabeth Losh, author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes aram sinnreich is director at OMD Ignition Factory and adjunct professor at New York University’s Department of Media, Culture and Communication.

Forever Doo-Wop
Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony John Michael Runowicz Explores the history and legacy of a distinctly American musical genre
Music can be a storehouse for emotional, social, and cultural experiences that deepen and acquire greater value over time. This is a book about a particular genre of vocal harmony music called doowop that has accrued deep meaning and affective power among Americans since its inception in the aftermath of World War II. Although the first doo-wop singers were primarily young black males in major American cities, it wasn’t long before white working-class teenagers began emulating their rhythm-and-blues harmonies. The racial exchange of this distinctive genre and the social bonding it engendered have had a significant and lasting impact on American musical culture. In Forever Doo-Wop, John Runowicz traces the history of this music from its origins in nineteenth-century barbershop quartets through its emergence in the postwar era to its nostalgic adulthood from the mid-1960s to today. The book is based on interviews he has conducted and observations he has made over the last twenty-two years working as guitarist, musical director, and second tenor with one of the legendary doo-wop groups, the Cadillacs, on what is popularly known as the “oldies circuit.” As a graduate student, he broadened his research to include the wider doo-wop community. Forever Doo-Wop invites readers to gaze through a window on our society and culture where certain truths are revealed about how white and black Americans coexist and interact, about how popular music functions as a vehicle for nostalgia, and about the role of music making over a long lifetime.

“Runowicz strives to reveal and explain to larger America exactly what doo-wop is, from what cultural arena it springs, and what its musical value, importance, and legacy is. And he succeeds on all counts.” —Robert Pruter, author of Doowop: The Chicago Scene “Forever Doo-Wop is really a pioneering work—the first full-length analytical scholarly book on the entire range of doowop’s history, from its roots in the late 1800s to its modern iterations as a species of collective mourning for a lost/imagined past.” —Jeffrey Melnick, author of A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song

john michael runowicz, who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University, is a professional musician and independent scholar.

Nine Choices
Johnny Cash and American Culture Jonathan Silverman A revealing cultural biography of a self-made American icon
For much of his career, Johnny Cash opened his shows with the tagline, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” This introduction seemed unnecessary, since everyone in the audience knew who he was—the famous musical artist whose career spanned almost five decades, whose troubled life on and off the stage received wide publicity, and whose cragged face seemed to express a depth and intensity not found in any other artist, living or dead. For Cash, as for many celebrities, renown was the product of both hard work and luck. Often a visionary and always a tireless performer, he was subject to a whirlwind of social, economic, and cultural countercurrents. Nine Choices explores the tension between Cash’s desire for mainstream success, his personal struggles with alcohol and drugs, and an ever-changing cultural landscape that often circumscribed his options. Drawing on interviews, archival research, and textual analysis, Jonathan Silverman focuses on Cash’s personal and artistic choices as a way of understanding his life, his impact on American culture, and the ways in which that culture in turn shaped him. Cash made decisions about where he would live, what he would play, who would produce his albums, whether he would support the Vietnam War, and even if he would flip his famous “bird”—the iconic image of Cash giving the finger which is now plastered on posters and T-shirts everywhere—in the context of cultural forces both visible and opaque. He made other decisions in con-

sultation with a variety of people, many of whom were chiefly concerned with the reaction of his audiences. Less a conventional biography than a study of the making of an identity, Nine Choices explores how Johnny Cash sought to define who he was, how he was perceived, and what he signified through a series of self-conscious actions. The result, Silverman shows, was a life that was often tumultuous but never uninteresting. “Focusing on what Johnny Cash means to Americans, rather than recounting a straightforward biography or offering traditional music criticism, this book makes the argument that Cash simultaneously embodies the existential search for authenticity at the heart of 1950s American culture and the postmodern self-consciousness

about performing the self that characterized late twentieth-century culture.” —Barbara Ching, author of Wrong’s What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture. jonathan silverman is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and coauthor of The World Is a Text: Writing Reading and Thinking about Culture and Its Contexts.

New in Paperback The American College Town
Blake Gumprecht Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title The college town is a unique type of urban place, shaped by the sometimes conflicting forces of youth, intellect, and idealism. The hundreds of college towns in the United States are, in essence, an academic archipelago. Similar to one another, they differ in fundamental ways from other cities and the regions in which they are located. In this highly readable book—the first work published on the subject—Blake Gumprecht identifies the distinguishing features of college towns, explains why they have developed as they have in the United States, and examines in depth various characteristics that make them unusual. In eight thematic chapters, he explores some of the most interesting aspects of college towns—their distinctive residential and commercial districts, their unconventional political cultures, their status as bohemian islands, their emergence as high-tech centers, and more. Each of these chapters focuses on a single college town as an example, while providing additional evidence from other towns. Lively, richly detailed, and profusely illustrated with original maps and photographs, as well as historical images, this is an important book that firmly establishes the college town as an integral component of the American experience.

“If a friend should ever ask for a book that epitomizes the best that geography can offer, I recommend Blake Gumprecht’s new volume as a near-perfect candidate. He takes a landscape familiar . . . and makes us see it afresh. He dissects its complexity with astonishing thoroughness, using a rich mix of archival material, personal observation, and field interviews. He offers deep case studies, but remembers the need for broader context. Finally, he assembles the total package with spirited, clean prose, some of the best academic writing I have ever seen.”—James R. Shortridge, Journal of Cultural Geography “A collection of intersecting short stories: warm narratives full of colorful anecdotes and supporting actors, out of which the character of the American college town emerges.” —M. Ray Witten, Flagpole, Athens, Georgia

“Lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched, and enlivened by a former journalist’s eye for detail, this will be a classic. Summing Up: Essential.”—Choice “There are red states and blue states, and then there are college towns—a universe of their own, anomalous political creatures. This brilliantly worked-out idea by a University of New Hampshire geographer is that rarest of things—the first fulllength study of its subject—and sure to please any academic on your list.” —Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer blake gumprecht is associate professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of New Hampshire.

Expanding the American Mind
Books and the Popularization of Knowledge Beth Luey A lively exploration of how nonfiction books have kept Americans learning long after leaving college
Over the past fifty years, knowledge of the natural world, history, and human behavior has expanded dramatically. What has been learned in the academy has become part of political discourse, sermons, and everyday conversation. The dominant medium for transferring knowledge from universities to the public is popularization—books of serious nonfiction that make complex ideas and information accessible to nonexperts. Such writers as Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Daniel Boorstin, and Robert Coles have attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. As fields such as biology, physics, history, and psychology have changed the ways we view ourselves and our place in the universe, popularization has played an essential role in helping us to understand our world. Expanding the American Mind begins by comparing fiction and nonfiction—their relative respectability in the eyes of reading experts and in the opinions of readers themselves. It then traces the roots of popularization from the Middle Ages to the present, examining changes in literacy, education, and university politics. Focusing on the period since World War II, it examines the ways that curricular reform has increased interest in popularization as well as the impact of specialization and professionalization among the faculty. It looks at the motivations of academic authors and the risks and rewards

that come from writing for a popular audience. It also explains how experts write for nonexperts—the rhetorical devices they use and the voices in which they communicate. Beth Luey also looks at the readers of popularizations—their motivations for reading, the ways they evaluate nonfiction, and how they choose what to read. This is the first book to use surveys and online reader responses to study nonfiction reading. It also compares the experience of reading serious nonfiction with that of reading other genres. Using publishers’ archives and editorauthor correspondence, Luey goes on to examine what editors, designers, and marketers in this very competitive business do to create and sell popularizations to the largest audience possible. In a brief afterword she discusses popularization and the Web. The result is a highly readable and engaging survey of this distinctive genre of writing.

beth luey is author of Handbook for Academic Authors, now in its fifth edition, and editor of Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors. For more than twenty-five years, she directed the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University.

Reading Places
Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America Christine Pawley Examines the role of public libraries during a time of national anxiety
This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records, Christine Pawley reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to implement an official literacy policy. Central to the experiment were wellstocked bookmobiles that brought books to rural districts and the one-room schools that dotted the region. Three years after the project began, state officials and local librarians judged it an overwhelming success. Library circulation figures soared to two-and-a-half times their previous level. Over 90 percent of grade-school children in the rural schools used the bookmobile service, and their reading scores improved beyond expectation. Despite these successes, however, local communities displayed deeply divided reactions. Some welcomed the bookmobiles and new library services wholeheartedly, valuing print and reading as essential to the exercise of democracy, and keen to widen educational opportunities for children growing up on hardscrabble farms where books and magazines were rare. Others feared the intrusion of government into their homes and communities, resented the tax increases that library services entailed, and complained about the subversive or immoral nature of some books.

Analyzing the history of tensions between various community groups, Pawley delineates the long-standing antagonisms arising from class, gender, and ethnic differences which contributed to a suspicion of official projects to expand education. Relating a seemingly small story of library policy, she teases out the complex interaction of reading, locality, and cultural difference. In so doing, she illuminates broader questions regarding libraries, literacy, and citizenship, reaching back to the nineteenth century and forward to the present day. “This book is alive with the voices of oral interviews and a density of wonderful details relating to rural Wisconsin’s encounter with modern print culture. . . . Though the book is a case study, its recourse to multiple layers of analysis and its comprehensive attention to the lived experience of individual readers and workers will be of wide significance, helping scholars and students of the book to think more fully about their objects of study and the questions they bring to them.” —Thomas Augst, coeditor of Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States

christine pawley is director of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. She is author of Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Late-NineteenthCentury Osage, Iowa, which won the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award of the State Historical Society of Iowa.

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Measuring America
How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century Andrew L. Yarrow Examines the rise of economic thinking in the United States after World War II
The United States has always fancied itself a nation apart—“exceptional” in its values, traditions, and way of life. For most of the country’s history, ideas about what made America distinctive generally were framed in terms of a liberal idealism rooted in the thought of John Locke and articulated by Jefferson, Madison, and other Founders. While some commentators also observed that the United States was a land of plenty, it wasn’t until the mid-twentieth century that material abundance emerged as the principal standard of American “greatness,” as measured by a host of new economic indicators. Beginning in earnest in the wake of World War II, opinion-shapers in politics, business, academia, the media, the schools, and public diplomacy gloried in the nation’s booming economy. Where “plenty” had once been a largely abstract concept, it was now quantifiable, thanks to new national income accounting and other economic data collection and analysis techniques. One could tally up production and consumption of an ever-expanding cornucopia of goods and services that made up the gross national product (GNP), the king of postwar statistics. American preeminence and American identity were increasingly linked with this measurable prosperity, presented in the language of a newly influential economics profession. In Measuring America, Andrew L. Yarrow explores this history, telling two

parallel, interlocking stories—of how economic ideas came to have vastly greater influence on American culture after World War II, and how those ideas dovetailed with a growing belief that the meaning and value of the United States resided in its material output. How and why this new way of “measuring America” developed, how it was expressed, and what it has meant and means for Americans today are the subject of this wellresearched and insightful book.

andrew l. yarrow is vice president and Washington director of Public Agenda and author of Forgive Us Our Debts: America’s Public Debt Crisis and How It Affects All Americans. He teaches U.S. history at American University.

Perfectly Average
The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America Anna Creadick Analyzes the ascendancy of the cultural ideal of the “normal” in the aftermath of World War II
At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945 and 1963 the idea of “normality” circulated as a keyword in almost every aspect of American culture. But what did this term really mean? What were its parameters? Whom did it propose to include and exclude? In Perfectly Average, Anna Creadick investigates how and why “normality” reemerged as a potent homogenizing category in postwar America. Working with scientific studies, material culture, literary texts, film, fashion, and the mass media, she charts the pursuit of the “normal” through thematic chapters on the body, character, class, sexuality, and community. Creadick examines such evidence as the “Norm and Norma” models produced during the war by sexologists and anthropologists—statistical composites of “normal” American bodies. In 1945, as thousands of Ohio women signed up for a Norma Look-Alike contest, a “Harvard Study of Normal Men” sought to define the typical American male according to specific criteria, from body shape to upbringing to blood pressure. By the early 1950s, the “man in the gray flannel suit” had come to symbolize what some regarded as the stultifying sameness of the “normalized” middle class. Meanwhile, novels such as From Here to Eternity and Peyton Place both supported and challenged normative ideas about gender, race, and

sexuality, even as they worked to critique the postwar culture of surveillance— watching and being watched—through which normalizing power functioned. As efforts to define normality became increasingly personal, the tensions embedded in its binary logic multiplied: Was normal descriptive of an average or prescriptive of an ideal? In the end, Creadick shows, a variety of statistics, assumptions, and aspirations converged to recast “normality” not as something innate or inborn, but rather as a quality to be actively pursued—a standard at once highly seductive and impossible to achieve because it required becoming perfectly average.

“What makes this an especially compelling book is not only the thoroughness of the research but the ease with which difficult theoretical arguments are woven into the analysis. It is a very readable text.” —Ardis Cameron, author of Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People anna creadick is assistant professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Influenza and Inequality
One Town’s Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918 Patricia J. Fanning A dramatic account of the deadly spread of influenza through a Massachusetts town in 1918
The influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the worst medical disasters in human history, taking close to thirty million lives worldwide in less than a year, including more than 500,000 in the United States. What made this pandemic even more frightening was the fact that it occurred when death rates for most common infectious diseases were diminishing. Still, an epidemic is not merely a medical crisis; it has sociological, psychological, and political dimensions as well. In Influenza and Inequality, Patricia J. Fanning examines these other dimensions and brings to life this terrible episode of epidemic disease by tracing its path through the town of Norwood, Massachusetts. By 1918, Norwood was a small, ethnically diverse, industrialized, and stratified community. Ink, printing, and tanning factories were owned by wealthy families who lived privileged lives. These industries attracted immigrant laborers who made their homes in several ethnic neighborhoods and endured prejudice and discrimination at the hands of native residents. When the epidemic struck, the immigrant neighborhoods were most affected; a fact that played a significant role in the town’s response—with tragic results. This close analysis of one town’s struggle illuminates how even well-intentioned elite groups may adopt and implement strategies that can exacerbate rather than relieve a medical crisis. It is a cautionary

tale that demonstrates how social behavior can be a fundamental predictor of the epidemic curve, a community’s response to crisis, and the consequences of those actions. “In a brilliant combination of scholarship and compassion, Fanning brings to life the Amercan experience of the devastating 1918 flu epidemic. That blow passed, but surprise outbreaks still threaten our world. We ignore the politics of community response, where the life-saving decisions are made, only at our peril.” —Jeanne Guillemin, author of Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak

patricia j. fanning is associate professor of sociology at Bridgewater State College and author of Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day.

Domestic Broils
Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, and the Narratives of Mary and Joseph Dyer Edited with an introduction by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe Reconstructs the bitter and widely publicized marital dispute between two early nineteenth-century Shakers
In 1813, Joseph Dyer, his wife Mary, and their five children joined the Shaker community in Enfield, New Hampshire. Joseph quickly adapted to the Shaker way of life, but Mary chafed under its strictures and eventually left the community two years later. When the local elders and her husband refused to release the couple’s children to Mary, she embarked on what would become a fifty-year campaign against the Shakers, beginning with the publication in 1818 of A Brief Statement of the Sufferings of Mary Dyer. The following year the Shakers countered by publishing Joseph’s A Compendious Narrative, a scathing attack on what the title page called “the character, disposition and conduct of Mary Dyer.” Reproduced here for the first time since their original publication, the Dyers’ dueling accounts of the breakup of their marriage form the core of Domestic Broils. In Mary’s telling, the deceptions of a cruel husband, backed by an unyielding Shaker hierarchy, destroyed what had once been a happy, productive family. Joseph’s narrative counters these claims by alleging that Mary abused her children, neglected her husband, and engaged in extramarital affairs. In her introduction to the volume, Elizabeth De Wolfe places the Dyers’ marital dispute in a broader historical context, drawing on their personal testi-

mony to examine connected but conflicting views of marriage, family life, and Shakerism in the early republic. She also shows how the growing world of print facilitated the transformation of a private family quarrel into a public debate. Salacious, riveting, and immensely popular throughout New England, the Dyers’ narratives not only captured imaginations but also reflected public anxieties over rapid cultural change in antebellum America. “A significant contribution that simultaneously dissects and contextualizes two primary sources relevant to women’s studies, religious studies, communal studies, gender studies, and the history of the early American republic.” —Christian Goodwillie, coeditor of Millennial Praises: A Shaker Hymnal

elizabeth a. de wolfe is professor of history at the University of New England.

Boston
Voices and Visions Shaun O’Connell A rich selection of writings by notable preachers, politicians, poets, novelists, essayists, and diarists
“New England was founded consciously, and in no fit of absence of mind,” observed historian Samuel Eliot Morison on the establishment of the Bay Colony in 1630 on the narrow, mountainous Shawmut peninsula of what became Massachusetts. That self-conscious presence of mind has endured for four centuries. Boston has been shaped and sustained by observation, imagination, and interpretation. As a result, the evolving vision of Boston has yielded a compelling literary record. In this wide-ranging anthology, Shaun O’Connell includes a generous sampling of those who have recorded, revised, and redefined the vision of Boston. Anne Bradstreet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Antin, Edwin O’Connor, John Updike, and many others eloquently evoke and explain Boston in these pages. From John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” sermon, delivered aboard the Arbella before his followers landed in 1630 in the place they would call Boston, to Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead,” a poem delivered in Boston’s Public Garden in 1960, writers have continued to invoke the high purposes for which the city was founded, sometimes in praise of the city, but often in what Robert Frost named a “lover’s quarrel,” in works that called attention to the city’s failures to fulfill its promises. In the twenty-first century some writers continue to celebrate or to castigate the city, while others look back to Boston’s origins to reassess its founders and renew its covenant of high purpose. This is an interpretive anthology— one that includes commentary as well as

writings. Section introductions provide historical and biographical context, offer analysis that stresses the thematic relevance of each selection, and explore the pattern of their relations. Rather than present a random array of writers who happen to have been Greater Bostonians, O’Connell focuses on those authors who possessed a commitment to the sense of place, those who addressed Boston not only as a geographical, social, and political entity but as an image, idea, and site of symbolic values. “This excellent anthology brings together a broad, diverse, and well-chosen collection of primary readings, with substantial introductory essays for each of the six sections. . . . New voices such as Michael Patrick MacDonald, Roland Merullo, and Eve LaPlante join familiar Boston literary luminaries. . . . O’Connell’s introductions are informed, well written, and effectively frame the varied voices and selections that are included in the anthology’s sections.” —Joseph A. Conforti, author of Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the MidTwentieth Century

shaun o’connell is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is author of Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape and Remarkable, Unspeakable New York.

Mapping Norwood
An Irish American Memoir Charles Fanning A noted scholar evokes the world of his childhood and investigates certain family mysteries
As the title indicates, this memoir is an act of map making, of plotting out overlapping territories—topographical, temporal, and psychological. Centered on family life in a Massachusetts town from the 1920s to the 1960s, the author’s investigation extends outward to include the Boston area from colonial times to the recent past, encounters with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and with Harvard College, the American Civil War, and Ireland and Germany in the nineteenth century. Charles Fanning re-creates the landscape of childhood and adolescence in a place and time both ordinary and rich with possibility. An expert on Irish immigration, he was born and raised in Norwood, Massachusetts, twelve miles outside of Boston, where Yankee and Irish cultures bumped against each other. The narrative traces his personal growth, shaped by family, school, baseball, radio drama, and art. He was the first in his family to attend college, and the book ends with his undergraduate experience at Harvard, class of 1964. Along with this coming-of-age story, Mapping Norwood features forays back in time, including chapters on each of Fanning’s parents and historical excavations and meditations on three ancestors. Guided by his own experience as a scholar, the pressure of these chapters is epistemological—the thrill of the hunt toward knowing. Fanning’s great-grandfather, John Fanning, disappeared from the family in the late 1880s, and a chapter chronicles the discovery of “Walking John’s” fifty

years of hidden later life in East St. Louis, Illinois, where he died alone in 1946. Fanning’s great-great-grandfather, Winslow Radcliffe, was a veteran of the 35th Massachusetts Infantry in the Civil War, and the author traces this regiment through the horrors of Antietam and Fredericksburg, by means of diaries and letters by four men from Winslow’s company. The evidence gleaned helps explain Winslow’s suicide after the war. An Irish immigrant ancestor, Phillip Fanning, came to Boston from County Monaghan just after the Great Famine of the late 1840s. Relying on historical research, Fanning imagines vividly the lives led by Phillip’s family and thousands like them in the wake of Ireland’s nineteenth-century catastrophe. “In this well-crafted book, Charles Fanning adds his own voice to those he identified in his critically acclaimed The Irish Voice. In addition to mapping his journey from boyhood, he carefully and

sympathetically retrieves the stories of his Irish and Irish American forebears.” —Maureen O’Rourke Murphy, coauthor of An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama charles fanning is professor of English and history and Distinguished Scholar Emeritus at Southern Illinois University. His previous books have won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and the American Conference for Irish Studies Award for Literary Criticism.

Carbine
Stories Greg Mulcahy Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction
Inhabiting a world that offers no guarantee of any veracity, the characters in these peculiar stories are driven to and goaded by compulsive and perhaps pointless reflection. They are haunted by unrelenting consciousness and knowledge of failure, yet are, at best, ambivalent toward any conventional equation of success. Theirs is a world of broken relationships, futile memory, constant appetite, and the certain knowledge that they are winding down in a culture in which it is impossible to do—or know—the right thing. Frustrated and obsessed, they cannot articulate their lives and are entranced by the strangeness of the everyday. Written with keen intelligence and biting humor, Carbine is a book about the ridiculousness of contemporary life—a book about what cannot be said. “Carbine is powerful work that reaches for the weightiest of matters: mortality, dementia, pain, anger, god, anxiety, amnesia, suicide, the failures of spirit and body. These stories are also very funny, in the way that wisdom, plainly spoken, is funny. Compression here is often frightening and brilliant. The mind set down on the page is given to swerves and volatility, to short fragments and interrupted thoughts. . . . Rage energizes these stories without embittering them; the narrator common among them is a man in his middle years whose potential for violence, and love, vulnerability, and fury, is unshakeable.” —Noy Holland, contest judge and author of What Begins with Bird.

“The men in Greg Mulcahy’s trigger-ready stories are bewildered and enraged by a world that looks like some awful funhouse of consumption. This devastating, sometimes wickedly funny book is chillingly on-target about the distortion of self in a culture that insists on compliance.” —Dawn Raffel, author of Carrying the Body and In the Year of Long Division “Blurbs are frauds. Speech synopsizing speech, can it but be false? The only thing is the thing itself—in this case, Greg Mulcahy. All of him, packing, strapped, armed—a menace to your community.” —Gordon Lish, author of Krupp’s Lulu and Arcade, or How to Write a Novel

greg mulcahy is president of the Minnesota State College Faculty. He is author of a previous story collection, Out Of Work, published by Knopf in 1993, and a novel, Constellation.

Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open
Poems Diane Seuss Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
Diane Seuss’s poems grow out of the fertile soil of southwest Michigan, bursting any and all stereotypes of the Midwest and turning loose characters worthy of Faulkner in their obsession, their suffering, their dramas of love and sex and death. The first section of this collection pays homage to the poet’s roots in a place where the world hands you nothing and promises less, so you are left to invent yourself or disappear. From there these poems both recount and embody repeated acts of defiant self-creation in the face of despair, loss, and shame, and always in the shadow of annihilation. With darkly raucous humor and wrenching pathos, Seuss burrows furiously into liminal places of no dimension— state lines, lakes’ edges, the space “between the m and the e in the word amen.” From what she calls “this place in-between” come profane prayers in which “the sound of hope and the sound of suffering” are revealed to be “the same music played on the same instrument.” Midway through this book, a man tells the speaker that beauty is that which has not been touched. This collection is a righteous and fierce counterargument: in the world of this imagination, beauty spills from that which has been crushed, torn, and harrowed. “We receive beauty,” Seuss writes, “as a nail receives / the hammer blow.” This is the poetry that comes only after the white dress has been blown open—the poetry of necessity, where a wild imagination is the only hope.

“In Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open we are introduced to a poetry both gentle and heart-breaking—and ferocious. In these fractured, yet lyrical, narratives and voices, there is a remarkable new way of approaching the terrible clarity of beauty and horror in this world. Diane Seuss writes with the intensity of a soothsayer. These poems spring from the depths of a hypnotic sensibility. They exist in the best of the literary and oral traditions—a love of language revealed in the use of all of its tools. Here is a poet vocalizing so much of what it means to be alive that I felt afraid at times to put the book down or to blink.” — Laura Kasischke, author of In a Perfect World and Feathered “For all its considerable invention, wit, tonal complexity, and vivid imagery—not to mention its economy and concentration—Diane Seuss’s work is never content to settle for craft. There is an insistently human connection to experience in each of her poems.” —Stuart Dybek, author of Streets in Their Own Ink

“Diane Seuss’s poems take us to a place ‘beyond the jurisdiction / of the sentence: (to) a secret place, bordered by lilacs.’ I could say they were ‘compelling’ (they are astonishingly so). I could say this poet was ‘the best poet of her generation’ (she just might be). What I want to say is that sometimes the pure products of America go crazy in a way that changes everything. When was the last time you picked up a book of poems and couldn’t for the life of you put it down?” — Gail Wronsky, author of Blue Shadow behind Everything Dazzling and Poems for Infidels diane seuss is writer-in-residence at Kalamazoo College. Her first poetry collection, It Blows You Hollow, was published in 1998 by New Issues Press. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and in many literary magazines, including Poetry, New Orleans Review, North American Review, and The Georgia Review.

Poetry 88 pp. $15.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-825-9 April 2010

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Companionship in Grief
Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin Jeffrey Berman An insightful analysis of how five prominent writers coped with the death of a beloved spouse
In Companionship in Grief, Jeffrey Berman focuses on the most life-changing event for many people—the death of a spouse. Some of the most acclaimed memoirs of the past fifty years offer insights into this profound loss: C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed; John Bayley’s three memoirs about Iris Murdoch, including Elegy for Iris; Donald Hall’s The Best Day the Worst Day; Joan Didion’s best-selling The Year of Magical Thinking; and Calvin Trillin’s About Alice. These books explore the nature of spousal bereavement, the importance of caregiving, the role of writing in recovery, and the possibility of falling in love again after a devastating loss. Throughout his study, Berman traces the theme of love and loss in all five memoirists’ fictional and nonfictional writings as well as in those of their spouses, who were also accomplished writers. Combining literary studies, grief and bereavement theory, attachment theory, composition studies, and trauma theory, Companionship in Grief will appeal to anyone who has experienced love and loss. Berman’s research casts light on five remarkable marriages, showing how autobiographical stories of love and loss can memorialize deceased spouses and offer wisdom and comfort to readers.

“Jeffrey Berman’s examination of each partner’s writings gives this book its unique perspective. I know of no other work like his in thanatology; Companionship in Grief will make a significant contribution to persons interested in death, dying, and bereavement.”—David Balk, editor-in-chief, Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement “This is a book that will be interesting to theorists of grief and grieving and to critics of contemporary British and American literature while at the same time appealing to general readers who have themselves experienced crucial losses—or fear them.” —Sandra M. Gilbert, author of Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve

jeffrey berman is professor of English at the University at Albany. His previous books include Risky Writing: Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom; Surviving Literary Suicide; and Diaries to an English Professor: Pain and Growth in the Classroom.

Translation, Resistance, Activism
Edited by Maria Tymoczko Essays on the role of translators as agents of change
More than merely linguistic transposition, translation is a vector of power, resistance, rebellion, and even revolution. Exploring these facets of the ideology of translation, the contributors to this volume focus on the agency of translators and their activism. Spanning two centuries and reaching across the globe, the essays examine the varied activist strategies of key translators and translation movements. From silence to radical manipulation of texts, translation strategies are instrumental in significant historical interventions and cultural change. Translation plays a pivotal role in ideological dialogue and struggle, including resistance to oppression and cultural straitjackets of all types, from sexual puritanism to military dictatorships. Situated in their own space, time, history, and political contexts, translators promote ideological agendas by creating new cultural narratives, pragmatically adjusting tactics so as to maximize the social and political impact. The essays in this volume explore ways to read translations as records of cultural contestation and ideological struggle; as means of fighting censorship, physical coercion, cultural repression, and political dominance; and as texts that foster a wide variety of goals from cultural nationalism to armed confrontation. Translations are set in relief as central cultural documents rather than derivative, peripheral, or marginalized productions. They are seen as forms of ethical, political, and ideological activity rather than as mere communicative transactions or creative literary exercises. The contributors demonstrate that

engaged and activist translations are performative acts within broader political and ideological contexts. The essays detail the initiative, resourcefulness, and courage of individual translators, whose willingness to put themselves on the line for social change can sometimes move the world. In addition to Maria Tymoczko, contributors include Pua‘ala‘okalani D. Aiu, Brian James Baer, Mona Baker, Paul F. Bandia, Georges L. Bastin, Nitsa Ben-Ari, Ángela Campo, Antonia CarcelenEstrada, Álvaro Echeverri, Denise Merkle, John Milton, and Else R.P. Vieira. “The scholarship in this volume is meticulous and impeccable. . . . Because of the wide range of situations considered in the essays and because the notion of resistance is significant in many different disciplines, the volume should appeal to readers in a broad spectrum of fields beyond translation studies.” —Carol Maier, coeditor of Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts

maria tymoczko is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is coeditor of Translation and Power and author of Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators.

Images of Black Modernism
Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance Miriam Thaggert Examines the intersecting contributions of writers and visual artists during a key period in African American cultural history
Focusing on the years from 1922 to 1938, this book revisits an important moment in black cultural history to explore how visual elements were used in poems, novels, and photography to undermine existing stereotypes. Miriam Thaggert identifies and analyzes an early form of black American modernism characterized by a heightened level of experimentation with visual and verbal techniques for narrating and representing blackness. The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, such as “Negro” dialect. By paying special attention to the contributions of photographers and other visual artists who have not been discussed in previous accounts of black modernism, Thaggert expands the scope of our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and contributes to a growing recognition of the importance of visual culture as a distinct element within, and not separate from, black literary studies. Thaggert trains her critical eye on the work of James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, Carl Van Vechten, James Van Der Zee, and Aaron Siskind—artists who experimented with narrative and photographic techniques in order to alter the perception of black

images and to question and reshape how one reads and sees the black body. Examining some of the more problematic authors and artists of black modernism, she challenges entrenched assumptions about black literary and visual representations of the early to mid twentieth century. Thaggert concludes her study with a close look at the ways in which Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance were reimagined and memorialized in two notable texts—Wallace Thurman’s 1932 satire Infants of the Spring and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s controversial 1969 exhibition “Harlem on My Mind: The Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968.”

miriam thaggert is assistant professor of English and African American studies at the University of Iowa.

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ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
A Genius for Place
American Landscapes of the Country Place Era
Robin Karson
Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Country Life
A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening
Robert Morris Copeland
Introduction by William H. Tishler A new edition of a classic mid-nineteenthcentury guide to scientific farming and landscape gardening.
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-694-1 912 pp., 215 illus., 2009 ASLA Centennial Reprint Series
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

“The most important book on American gardens for a decade at least.” —London Telegraph “This is a feast to be savored and digested slowly, over time.”—Landscape Architecture
$65.00t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-636-1 424 pp., 483 duotone illus., 2007
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

The Art of Landscape Architecture
Samuel Parsons Jr.
Introduction by Francis R. Kowsky “A must-read for those who love Central Park and want to have a deep understanding of Parsons’s role in protecting this enduring national treasure and work of art.”—Douglas Blonsky
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-695-8 516 pp., 82 illus., 2009 ASLA Centennial Reprint Series
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Mission 66
Modernism and the National Park Dilemma
Ethan Carr
Winner of the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award of the Society of Architectural Historians A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“This volume should be part of every library supporting planning, recreation, land economics, and geography.”—Choice
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-587-6 424 pp., 200 illus., 2007
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Landscape for Living
Garret Eckbo
Introduction by David C. Streatfield A new edition of an influential manifesto on modernism in landscape design, by one of the most highly respected American modernist landscape architects.
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-696-5 336 pp., 120 illus., 2009 ASLA Centennial Reprint Series
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

Silent City on a Hill
Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery
Blanche M. G. Linden
Winner of the Historic Preservation Book Award Winner of an ASLA Merit Award

“The definitive book on the causes leading to the rural cemetery movement and the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery.”—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
$39.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5 392 pp., 17 color and 300 black-and-white illus., 2007
Published in association with Library of American Landscape History

The Craftsman and the Critic
Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts–Era Boston
Beverly K. Brandt
“Thoroughly researched and written with clarity, this book will be an indispensable reference work.”—James F. O’Gorman
$65.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-677-4 444 pp., 19 color and 240 black-and-white illus., 2009

The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture
Todd Estes
“Estes has laid out a path that reconnects diplomatic history to the general study of the early republic, which other historians would be advised to follow.”—Journal of American History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-669-9 280 pp., 2008

Missionaries in Hawai‘i
The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797–1883
Clifford Putney
“Extremely well researched and well written. I think it will make a lasting contribution to the history of missionaries in Hawai‘i.”—Paul Burlin
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-735-1 272 pp., 25 illus., March 2009

“A meticulous, nuanced account of the many varieties of needlework that engaged the energies of women in eighteenthcentury and early nineteenth-century rural New England.”—Journal of Social History
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-545-6 328 pp., 31 illus., 8 color plates, 2006

Cultivating a Past
Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
Edited by Marla R. Miller
“A fitting act of homage to the town of Hadley and to Sylvester Judd, whose 200th anniversary volume created a model for the New England town history, set a standard for research, and showed that the lives of ordinary people were worthy of serious study.”—Kevin M. Sweeney
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-700-9 384 pp., 46 illus., 2009

Sports
The First Five Millennia
Allen Guttmann
Winner of the Book Award of the North American Society for Sport History A Selection of the History Book Club

The Culture and Sport of Skiing
From Antiquity to World War II
E. John B. Allen
Winner of the Ullr Award from the International Skiing History Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence
Michael Holzman
“Holzman’s book is a major history of chilling impact, and a long, rewarding odyssey through the labyrinth of counterintelligence. . . . His cast is huge and his explorations far reaching.”—ForeWord
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-650-7 416 pp., 2008

The End of Victory Culture
Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
Tom Engelhardt
revised edition, with a new preface and afterword “An extraordinarily original work that places postwar American history in an entirely new perspective.”—John Dower
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-586-9 408 pp., 2007 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Out of the Attic
Inventing Antiques in TwentiethCentury New England
Briann G. Greenfield
“This book will be invaluable to students of history, historic preservation, regional culture, New England studies, museums, antiques, and the decorative arts.” —Thomas A. Denenberg
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-710-8 256 pp., 31 illus., 2009 Public History in Historical Perspective

War Stars
The Superweapon and the American Imagination
H. Bruce Franklin
revised and expanded edition
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

A Matter of Life and Death
Hunting in Contemporary Vermont
Marc Boglioli
“An important contribution to the understanding of rural life in the United States that will be of interest to students and professionals in human/nature relationships in a variety of disciplines.” —Gerald W. Creed
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-716-0 208 pp., 2009

“War Stars is so crammed with fascinating facts and ideas that it should interest people of all political persuasions. It should be required reading.”—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-651-4 320 pp., 32 illus., 2008

When the Girls Came Out to Play
The Birth of American Sportswear
Patricia Campbell Warner
“An important work, the product of twenty years of research. It is the first scholarly treatment to systematically analyze the evolution of women’s sportswear in the United States.”—Journal of American History
$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-549-4 320 pp., 45 illus., 2006

Hollywood’s Cold War
Tony Shaw
“A sprightly and very informative volume, which analyzes how Communists and their adversaries were shown on the big screen.”—Journal of Cold War Studies
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-612-5 352 pp., 42 illus., 2007 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

The FBI and the Catholic Church, 1935–1962
Steve Rosswurm
A probing analysis of the relationship between two powerful institutions in twentieth-entury America.
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-155849-729-0 352 pp., 2009

The Lowell Experiment
Public History in a Postindustrial City
Cathy Stanton
Winner of the Book Award of the National Council on Public History

“One of the best case studies in the world of public history I have yet read, and a very important story to tell.”—Edward T. Linenthal
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-547-0 320 pp., 15 illus., 2006

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Upstaging the Cold War
American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940–1960
Andrew J. Falk
“For me, the most sriking virtue of this book is its ability to document and historicize cultural dissent over a significant and greatly changing two-decade period in ways that make these expressions of political criticism more central to mainstream politics than I had ever imagined.” —Christian G. Appy
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-155849-728-3 264 pp., Feb. 2010 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Pressing the Fight
Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War
Edited by Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
Original essays on the role of the printed word in the ideological struggle between East and West.
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-736-8 312 pp., 16 illus., Feb. 2010 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Invisible Enemies
The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000
Edwin A. Martini
“This is a first-rate book and must reading for anyone interested in recent U.S. foreign policy.”—H-Diplo Reviews
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-609-5 288 pp., 2007 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

The Dragon’s Tail
Americans Face the Atomic Age
Robert A. Jacobs
“This is an outstanding book . . . and it is accessible in ways that should make it attractive to general audiences as well as specialists in the field.”—Allen M. Winkler
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-155849-727-6 176 pp., 20 illus., Feb. 2010 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

The Myth of the Addicted Army
Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs
Jeremy Kuzmarov
“Will contend for best-book awards. . . . It is chock full of original research utilizing government documents and interviews with policymakers.”—Jerry Lembcke
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-705-4 288 pp., 2009 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

President of the Other America
Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty
Edward R. Schmitt
“Schmitt’s carefully drawn and resourceful reconstruction of RFK’s intellectual and emotional journey makes an important contribution.”—James W. Hilty
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-155849-730-6 320 pp., 15 illus., Feb. 2010

Beyond Vietnam
The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974 –1990
Robert Surbrug Jr.
“Should appeal to a considerable audience, given the paucity of books dealing with the history of radical movements in the United States over the past thirty years.”—Van Gosse
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-712-2 320 pp., 2009 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Framing the Sixties
The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
Bernard von Bothmer
“A smart, important and impressively researched account of the decade that far too often is reduced to clichés by the left and the right.”—Tom Brokaw
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-155849-732-0 320 pp., Jan. 2010

Walking Away from Nuremberg
Just War and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility
Lawrence P. Rockwood
“A forceful, reasoned, informed, and convincing call to duty to the entire military. It comes from one who saw his duty and did it, and continues to do it to this day.” —Stephen Wrage
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-599-9 272 pp., 2007

Secular Missionaries
Americans and African Development in the 1960s
Larry Grubbs
“Essential reading for scholars in U.S. foreign relations, and those interested in the historical roots of contemporary problems and challenges facing African countries.”—Kevin Gaines
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-734-4 256 pp., Jan 2010 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Vietnam’s Southern Revolution
From Peasant Insurrection to Total War
David Hunt
“A marvelous work of globally inflected social history that marks a sharp and welcome departure from much of the existing literature on the war. Hunt’s book takes us for the first time deep into the interior worlds of war and revolution.” —Mark Philip Bradley
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-692-7 288 pp., 2 maps, 2009 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

The Dance of the Comedians
The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
Peter M. Robinson
“A wonderful book—exceptionally well written, insightful, and serious but fun.” —LeRoy Ashby
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-733-7 288 pp., Jan. 2010

BLACK STUDIES
Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom
Edited by James Brewer Stewart
“A stunning collection. Venture Smith is a very important historical figure; his memoir is the only first-person source that narrates the entire arc of an African American’s life from childhoold in Africa through enslavement and emancipation to old age in North America.” —Joanne Melish
$34.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-740-5 256 pp., 8 illus., March 2010

The Vietnam War in American Memory
Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing
Patrick Hagopian
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“I have not seen a more careful or thorough treatment of memorialization of the Vietnam War. . . . This is an impeccably researched and gracefully written book.”—Edward T. Linenthal
$49.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-693-4 560 pp., 100 illus., 2009 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

Religious Liberty in America
The First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Bruce T. Murray
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment
Edited by Richard M. Reid

The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts
The previously unpublished record of a white doctor’s service with African American troops during the Civil War.
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-739-9 288 pp., 12 illus., Feb. 2010

“Should be required reading for all journalists who touch on the book’s subject. . . . Other books on these issues have been appearing of late, but none as clear and thorough as this one.”—Choice
$19.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-638-5 232 pp., 2008
Published in association with Foundation for American Communications

Near Black
Baz Dreisinger

White-to-Black Passing in American Culture
“How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest Near Black by Baz Dreisinger.”—New York Times Book Review
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-675-0 192 pp., 2008

Barney Frank
The Story of America’s Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
Stuart E. Weisberg
“Stuart Weisberg’s biography of Barney Frank is not just definitive—it’s as entertaining and fascinating as its subject.” —Jeffrey Toobin “A thorough portrait of Frank and a compelling Baedeker to Massachusetts politics in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.” —Boston Globe
$29.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-721-4 544 pp., 22 illus., 2009

Boycotts, Buses, and Passes
Black Women’s Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa
Pamela E. Brooks
“Brooks carves out for these women their rightful place in the history of the black freedom movement.”—Ms.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-678-1 336 pp., 20 illus., 4 maps, 2008

Moving Encounters
Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature
Laura L. Mielke
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Jump for Joy
Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America
Gena Caponi-Tabery
“A remarkable book, an example of cultural studies as well as a history of dominant motifs in African American and U.S. culture before the civil rights movement.”—Journal of American History
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-663-7 304 pp., 24 illus., 2008

MEMOIR, FICTION, AND POETRY
Tracing Paradise
Two Years in Harmony with John Milton
Dawn Potter
“Potter writes beautifully. Her prose is as clear as the song of a bell bird. She knows how to use detail, quotations from Milton but also domestic detail, for this is a book about living sensibly more than about Milton.”—Samuel Pickering
$22.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-701-6 160 pp., 14 illus., 2009

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
Early Native Literacies in New England
A Documentary and Critical Anthology
Edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss
An introduction to the rich heritage of early Native literacy culture in New England.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-648-4 288 pp., 7 illus., 2008 Native Americans of the Northeast

Experience Mayhew’s Indian Converts
A Cultural Edition
Edited by Laura Arnold Leibman
A new scholarly edition of an important primary text in Native American studies. “It is a landmark work, and the time is well overdue for a scholarly edition.” —David J. Silverman
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-661-3 448 pp., 13 illus., 2008 Native Americans of the Northeast

“Magical, mythical, memorable, moving. Ramola D is a Scheherazade of the first order. This is a book to savor.” —Sandra Cisneros
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-742-9 176 pp., 2009
Published in cooperation with Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

Legend of a Suicide
David Vann
Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book of the Year

The Other Side of Grief
The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War
Maureen Ryan
A cogent synthesis of the vast narrative literature generated by the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
$34.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-686-6 352 pp., 2 maps, 2008 Culture, Politics, and the Cold War

“It is a devastating journey that is difficult to read but impossible to put down and equally impossible to forget.” —San Francisco Chronicle
$24.95t cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-672-9 184 pp., 2008
Published in cooperation with Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)

What a Book Can Do
The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring
Priscilla Coit Murphy
“A highly readable and often illuminating study . . . raises timely questions about science, the media, and the right to know.” —Orion Journal
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-582-1 272 pp., 15 illus., 2007 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

“Interloper is a cohesive body, indicative of many years honing. Its vibrant images of memory and doubt, despite their ambiguous cohesion, foster a common ground between author and reader.”—Verse
$14.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-697-2 96 pp., 2009

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Master Mechanics & Wicked Wizards
Images of the American Scientist as Hero and Villain from Colonial Times to the Present
Glen Scott Allen
A wide-ranging examination of how scientists have been portrayed in American culture.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-703-0 352 pp., 36 illus., 2009

Literary Journalism on Trial
Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
Kathy Roberts Forde
Winner of the AEJMC Award for the Best Book on Journalism & Mass Communication History

Public Poet, Private Man
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200
Christoph Irmscher “Christoph Irmscher demonstrates the
enviable ability to select a dazzling array of material objects from another century, and use them to give shape and substance to the life and times of a most appealing subject.”—Nicholas Basbanes
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-584-5 236 pp., 67 illus., 2009
Published in cooperation with Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inventing the Addict
Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature
Susan Zieger
“A richly contextualized and elegantly nuanced cultural history of the concept of addiction.”—Priscilla Wald
$34.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-680-4 320 pp., 2008

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Margaret
A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
Sylvester Judd
Edited with an introduction by Gavin Jones “A succès d’estime in its own day, Margaret not only has intrinsic literary merit as the best Transcendentalist novel, but it also offers a window onto major cultural shifts in nineteenth-century New England.” —Lawrence Buell
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-717-7 464 pp., 2009

Ashes of the Mind
War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900
Martin Griffin
How Northern writers came to grips with the mixed legacy of the Civil War.
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-690-3 280 pp., 2009

Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920
Gregory M. Pfitzer
“Pfitzer skillfully examines the complex interplay of history, literature, and the publishing world from the perspective of historiography.”—Choice
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-625-5 464 pp., 2008 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Agent of Change
Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin
“Essays by scholars from a range of disciplines which collectively illustrate the kind of breadth and depth that has been achieved in this field in the last three decades.”—Technology and Culture
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-593-7 464 pp., 10 illus., 2007 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Published in association with The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress

Institutions of Reading
The Social Life of Libraries in the United States
Edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter
“An important addition to American studies and library history collections.” —Library Journal
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-591-3 392 pp., 39 illus., 2007 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Robert E. Sherwood
The Playwright in Peace and War
Harriet Hyman Alonso
“A richly textured treatment of one of America’s most honored yet longforgotten playwrights, who also helped provide a model of the public intellectual.” —Journal of American History
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-619-4 416 pp., 14 illus., 2007

Popular Print and Popular Medicine
Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America
Thomas A. Horrocks
“Admirably circumspect in its arguments and capacious in its exposition of the social and cultural contexts of popular health advice, Horrocks’s book offers a useful introduction to a long-neglected source.”—Journal of American History
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-657-6 240 pp., 8 illus., 2008 Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Piety and Dissent
Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography
Eileen Razzari Elrod
“Spiritual autobiography remains one of the most ‘teachable’ genres in early American literature, and Elrod’s book will extend how we conceive and follow through on such instruction.” —Philip F. Gura
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-629-3 248 pp., 5 illus., 2008

A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation
Scott C. Lucas
“This book makes a distinctive and important contribution to both Tudor literature and Tudor history and will be read by students of both. And it is written in excellent, jargon-free prose. I strongly recommend it.”—Patrick Collinson
$39.95 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-706-1 288 pp., 6 illus., 2009 Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture

Culture Club
The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum
Katherine Wolff
“A well-researched, engagingly written book. It moves beyond the usual classbased interpretation of elite Boston institutions to consider other sources of motivation and influence and other historical issues.”—Tamara Plakins Thornton
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-714-6 256 pp., 28 illus., 2009

Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson
Jed Deppman
“Gives us a Dickinson who speaks powerfully to central philosophical questions of the twenty-first century while also positioning her in the historical context of her own time.”—Paul Crumbley
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-684-2 288 pp., 29 illus., 2008

Featuring more than sixty artists from communities across the state, this book reveals the remarkable diversity of folk arts in Massachusetts. “An innovative and modern approach to studying regional heritage.”—Historical Journal of Massachusetts
$24.95t paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-640-8 216 pp., 170 illus., 2008
Distributed for the Massachusetts Cultural Council and published in collaboration with the National Heritage Museum

NEw ENGLAND
At the Altar of the Bottom Line
The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century
Tom Juravich
“A beautifully written, compelling portrait of four groups of Massachusetts workers.” —Ruth Milkman
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-155849-725-2 260 pp., 14 illus., CD of songs and interviews, 2009

Shadows in the Valley
A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840–1916
Alan Swedlund
“Offers a sensitive, poignant look at suffering, disease, and death in the lives of residents of western Massachusetts, just as authorities were beginning to identify disease pathogens, improve water and food supplies, and prevent childhood epidemics.” —Lynn M. Morgan
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-720-7 272 pp., 50 illus., March 2010

The Future of Work in Massachusetts
Edited by Tom Juravich
Multiple perspectives on the changing environment of work and workplaces in the Bay State.
$24.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-607-1 252 pp., 23 illus., 40 tables, 2007

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How Strange It Seems
The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England
Michael Hoberman
“A well-written and thoughtful contribution to New England ethnohistory. While working on a small-town stage, he has produced valuable insights into both New England and Jewish life.” —Vermont History
$28.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-646-0 288 pp., 29 illus., 2008

The Humane Metropolis
People and Nature in the 21st-Century City
Edited by Rutherford H. Platt
“Platt’s essayists provide nourishment—like good bagels—to anybody taking a pause on a bench, in Holly Whyte’s way, to consider the city as an evolving organism responsive to intelligent leadership.” —Roger G. Kennedy
$27.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-554-8 340 pp., 57 illus., 22-minute DVD, 2006
Published in association with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Catastrophe
Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse
Edited by Austin Sarat and Javier Lezaun
“One of the strongest edited collections I have read for some time. It provides a wide array of very different methodological and theoretical tool kits for exploring the multiple relationships between catastrophe, politics, and the law.”—Jonathan Simon
$26.95 paper, ISBN 978-155849-738-2 240 pp., 5 illus., 2009

Flora of the Northeast
A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New York
Dennis W. Magee and Harry E. Ahles
revised edition, with a new cd-rom “Comprehensive and fascinating— even for readers far outside this manual’s targeted region.”—American Scientist
$95.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-577-7 1,264 pp., 2,433 range maps, 995 line drawings, CD-ROM, 2007

Freshwater Wetlands
A Guide to Common Indicator Plants of the Northeast
Dennis W. Magee
revised and expanded edition “A beautifully illustrated book of the more common wetland plants found in the northeastern U.S.”—Choice
$22.95 paper, ISBN 978-0-87023-317-3 256 pp., 182 illus., 1981

Field Guide to Tidal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States and Neighboring Canada
Vegetation of Beaches, Tidal Flats, Rocky Shores, Marshes, Swamps, and Coastal Ponds
Ralph W. Tiner
“A delight to read and a pleasure to use . . . Whether you are a botanist, a wetland ecologist, or someone with an interest in wetland plants, this useful and attractive book should be on your bookshelf.” —Science Books and Films
$29.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-667-5 488 pp., 570 illus., 2008

The Press currently publishes the following series:
American Popular Music: Edited by Jeffrey Melnick (Babson College) and Rachel Rubin (University of Massachusetts Boston), this series seeks brief, well-written, classroom-friendly books that are accessible to general readers. Culture, Politics, and the Cold War: Edited by Christian G. Appy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this highly regarded series has produced a wide range of books that reexamine the Cold War as a distinct historical epoch, focusing on the relationship between culture and politics. Grace Paley Prize: Since 1990 the Press has published the annual winner of the AWP Award in Short Fiction competition, now called the Grace Paley Prize. The $4,000 award is sponsored by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), an organization that includes over 400 colleges and universities with a strong commitment to teaching creative writing. Juniper Prizes: Established in 1975, the Juniper Prize for Poetry is awarded annually and carries a $1,500 prize in addition to publication. The Juniper Prize for Fiction was established in 2004 and also carries a $1,500 prize. In each case, a committee of writers selects the winner. Library of American Landscape History: The Press continues to publish a distinguished list of titles in association with LALH, an Amherst-based nonprofit organization that develops books and exhibitions about North American landscapes and the people who created them. Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture: Edited by Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts Amherst), the series embraces substantive critical and scholarly works that significantly advance and refigure our knowledge of Tudor and Stuart England. Native Americans of the Northeast: Books in this wellestablished series examine the diverse cultures and histories of the Indian peoples of New England, the Middle Atlantic states, eastern Canada, and the Great Lakes region. Series editors are Colin Calloway (Dartmouth College), Jean M. O’Brien-Kehoe (University of Minnesota), and Barry O’Connell (Amherst College). Public History in Historical Perspective: Edited by Marla R. Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this new series explores how representations of the past have been mobilized to serve a variety of political, cultural, and social ends. Science/Technology/Culture: This new interdisciplinary series seeks to publish engaging books that illuminate the role of science and technology in American life and culture. Series editors are Carolyn de la Peña (University of California, Davis) and Siva Vaidhyanathan (University of Virginia). Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book: A substantial list of books on the history of print culture, authorship, reading, writing, printing, and publishing. The series editorial board includes Roger Chartier (Collège de France), Robert A. Gross (University of Connecticut), Joan Shelley Rubin (University of Rochester), and Michael Winship (University of Texas, Austin).

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